Available Formats
Hagiography and Modern Russian Literature
By (Author) Margaret Ziolkowski
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
891.7093522
Hardback
282
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
567g
The heritage of medieval hagiography, the diverse and voluminous literature devoted to saints, was much more important in nineteenth-century Russia than is often recognized. Although scholars have treated examples of the influence of hagiographic writing on a few prominent Russian writers, Margaret Ziolkowski is the first to describe the vast exten